Re: [Wikimedia-l] National Museum of Korea releases images of artifacts and old books.

2013-12-18 Thread rupert THURNER
just out of interest, is there any template on wikimedia commons which follows dublin core? the only reference i could find was: https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Dublin_Core rupert. On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 9:42 AM, RYU Cheol rch...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for your attention,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2013-14 Round 2 FDC/annual plan grants timeline moved out by a month: proposals due April 1, 2014

2013-12-18 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
I would like to note that this is highly irregular, biased, and unfair. Last year, Wikimedia India had formally requested for similar concessions during FDC Round 2 of 2012-13 and were denied the same and we had to wait for Round 1 of FDC 2013-14 to make a request for FDC funding. WMF needs to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

2013-12-18 Thread geni
On 17 December 2013 20:08, Matthew Flaschen matthew.flasc...@gatech.eduwrote: As Andrew said, the interesting question is whether the Commons community can effectively help curate/add metadata for this unidentified content. Even if we could a lot of the images could do with some

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2013-14 Round 2 FDC/annual plan grants timeline moved out by a month: proposals due April 1, 2014

2013-12-18 Thread Tomasz W. Kozlowski
geni wrote: Not really. If Wikimedia India doesn't get funded then a few outreach and editor recruitment programs get delayed. If WMF doesn't get funded the servers go bye bye and mediawiki stops getting patched. I suppose the FDC is baised in favor of the continued existence of wikipedia but

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2013-14 Round 2 FDC/annual plan grants timeline moved out by a month: proposals due April 1, 2014

2013-12-18 Thread geni
On 18 December 2013 17:09, Tomasz W. Kozlowski tom...@twkozlowski.netwrote: This is so untrue I don't even know where to start. Perhaps having a look at the latest Foundation report and the 2013-14 Annual Plan might be good places to begin your research, geni. I'm aware that the EMF funds

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2013-14 Round 2 FDC/annual plan grants timeline moved out by a month: proposals due April 1, 2014

2013-12-18 Thread Nathan
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: I would like to note that this is highly irregular, biased, and unfair. Last year, Wikimedia India had formally requested for similar concessions during FDC Round 2 of 2012-13 and were denied the same and we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2013-14 Round 2 FDC/annual plan grants timeline moved out by a month: proposals due April 1, 2014

2013-12-18 Thread rupert THURNER
Hi srikant, while i fully understand that it was not practical for you last year, i highly appreciate that over time and with more input (yours as well) a better balance is found. Ie a round every 6 months which solves similar problems you had, and wmf beeing able to present its real budget

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] FDC Eligibility - Round 2

2013-12-18 Thread Garfield Byrd
Dear Wikimedia Community: As you may know, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees on how to allocate movement funds to best meet Wikimedia goals and strategic priorities.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] National Museum of Korea releases images of artifacts and old books.

2013-12-18 Thread RYU Cheol
It means that even you can get the metadata from the museum, we could not import it with a general tool? The museum is going to release the content by exposing it on their website. Currently I advised them to publish with DC(Dublin Core) attributes. Then I need to write some codes which can

Re: [Wikimedia-l] National Museum of Korea releases images of artifacts and old books.

2013-12-18 Thread Asaf Bartov
If memory serves, the GLAMwiki Toolset project supports ingesting large amount of metadata in Dublin Core. See here: http://gwtoolset.wmflabs.org/wiki/GWToolset And perhaps David Haskiya (CCed) can shed more light. Cheers, A. On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 6:42 PM, RYU Cheol rch...@gmail.com

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 9, Issue 50 -- 18 December 2013

2013-12-18 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
News and notes: Nine new arbitrators announced http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-12-18/News_and_notes WikiProject report: Babel Series: Tunisia on the French Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-12-18/WikiProject_report Discussion